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// Query for Sentences that Contain a Specified Set of Words
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt693048.aspx
//
// This example shows how to find sentences in a text file that contain matches
// for each of a specified set of words. Although the array of search terms is
// hard-coded in this example, it could also be populated dynamically at
// runtime. In this example, the query returns the sentences that contain the
// words "Historically," "data," and "integrated."
//
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
using System.Linq;
using System;
class FindSentences
{
static void Main()
{
string text =
@"Historically, the world of data and the world of objects " +
@"have not been well integrated. Programmers work in C# or Visual Basic " +
@"and also in SQL or XQuery. On the one side are concepts such as classes, " +
@"objects, fields, inheritance, and .NET Framework APIs. On the other side " +
@"are tables, columns, rows, nodes, and separate languages for dealing with " +
@"them. Data types often require translation between the two worlds; there are " +
@"different standard functions. Because the object world has no notion of query, a " +
@"query can only be represented as a string without compile-time type checking or " +
@"IntelliSense support in the IDE. Transferring data from SQL tables or XML trees to " +
@"objects in memory is often tedious and error-prone.";
// Split the text block into an array of sentences.
string[] sentences = text.Split(new char[] { '.', '?', '!' });
// Define the search terms. This list could also be dynamically populated at runtime.
string[] wordsToMatch = { "Historically", "data", "integrated" };
// Find sentences that contain all the terms in the wordsToMatch array.
// Note that the number of terms to match is not specified at compile time.
var sentenceQuery = from sentence in sentences
let w = sentence.Split(new char[] { '.', '?', '!', ' ', ';', ':', ',' },
StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
where w.Distinct().Intersect(wordsToMatch).Count() == wordsToMatch.Count()
select sentence;
// Execute the query. Note that you can explicitly type
// the iteration variable here even though sentenceQuery
// was implicitly typed.
foreach (string str in sentenceQuery)
{
Console.WriteLine(str);
}
// Keep the console window open in debug mode.
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
/*
Output:
Historically, the world of data and the world of objects have not been well integrated
*/